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LoseIt!

Jan 26th, 2010 by Jessica

I am using the Iphone app called LoseIt! to help track my eating habits. I am also using the On Demand exercise channel to start the 30 Day Shred on Sunday!

I have been so busy with school that I have hardly had time to breathe much less blog. so let’s see what have I been up to?

Yesterday I had jury summons and I brought my lap top with me but the battery was dead and I couldn’t get a seat with an electrical outlet. So I just carried my heavy laop top around all day and got a sore shoulder as a reward. I did a lot of homework and read a lot in my book. It was an all around boring day, and I didn’t get called to serve.

On my way home I was really bad and stopped by McDonalds (diet? what?) and got a chicken sandwich. Now I haven’t eaten McDonalds in a very long time. I’ve pretty much sworn off fast food, but I was starving and still had to go to school, so it was desperate times, desperare measures… Well, it was gross. So, so gross that I felt double awful for stopping in and spending 6 bucks on a nasty sandwich (yummy fried though…).

And that was the highlight of my last few weeks. I’m serious when I say that school is consuming all my time … well that and work and WoW… so all the priorities are straight. ^^

You really don’t need to hear how excited I got when the grocery bill was less than $115 (ridiculously excited) or how we cleaned the garage and threw away a whole crap load of junk … because… yeah, how snooze worthy it all is at the moment.

Just one year to go until I graduate! I feel it coming, I can’t wait to turn this corner.

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First Day of School

Jan 11th, 2010 by Jessica

Tonight is my first night of classes!  A&P 1.  Yay.  I took it a few years ago and got an A in both sections.  Now I have to take the labs too.  I’m excited, but they were sold out of my book!  Boo!  Hopefully that will not cause too much of a hassle on the first night… I really don’t want to share books with someone.

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Goals

Jan 7th, 2010 by Jessica

Here are my goals for 2010 ….
> lose weight and feel better about myself
> get good grades in school
> be less grumpy over little things
> find new ways to show John how much I appreciate him
> build my picture wall
> walk pnut more
> plant some plants and landscape my house
> get my house on the market
> replace one major appliance
> curse less, be positive!

Perhaps they seem small, but I feel like 2010 is going to be a good year for me and my family.

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2009 in Photo Review

Dec 31st, 2009 by Jessica


John purchased his dream car …


Played with my new camera that I got for Christmas 2008 …


Made new friends …


Celebrated 3 years of happiness … (with a horrible picture!) …


Went on an amazing vacation …


And remained relatively healthy and happy while doing so!

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2009 Books in Review

Dec 28th, 2009 by Jessica

I love goodreads.com. It has helped me find new books and catalog my old books and to keep track of what I’ve read and what I thought about the book. It also has tons of communities that I really don’t take part in, but I have found many books from browsing all the user generated libraries. Without further ado, here are the books I read in 2009 – oddly enough, I read just about as many books in 2009 that I did in 2008.

Stand Alone Novels

Birthright Roberts, Nora
In Her Shoes Weiner, Jennifer
High Noon Roberts, Nora
Montana Sky Roberts, Nora
Dancing In The Moonlight (Cowboys of Cold Creek, #2) Thayne, Raeanne (laughable… horrible… but it was free)
Sundays at Tiffany’s Patterson, James (silly book)
Memoirs of a Geisha Golden, Arthur (this was amazing and beautiful)
The Friday Night Knitting Club Jacobs, Kate (awful. AWFUL.)
Confessions of a Shopaholic (Shopaholic, Book 1) Kinsella, Sophie
Night Sins Hoag, Tami
Sweet Revenge Roberts, Nora
Into the Wild Krakauer, Jon (tragic.)
The Boleyn Inheritance Gregory, Philippa (a fun guilty pleasure)
Me Talk Pretty One Day Sedaris, David

Series Novels
I love all these books, I anxiously await every paperback release. I love that True Blood follows the novels as much as it does. Not exactly, but enough where you go, “Oh! I remember that!”

Dead and Gone (Sookie Stackhouse, #9) Harris, Charlaine
From Dead to Worse (Sookie Stackhouse, #8) Harris, Charlaine
Dead as a Doornail (Sookie Stackhouse, #5) Harris, Charlaine
Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse, #4) Harris, Charlaine
Definitely Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #6) Harris, Charlaine
All Together Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #7) Harris, Charlaine
The Awakening (The Vampire Diaries, #1) Smith, L.J.
The Struggle (The Vampire Diaries, #2) Smith, L.J.
Outlander Gabaldon, Diana (reread… favorite series)
Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana (reread … I love Jamie and Claire…)

Unfinished … because they sucked

The Blind Assassin Atwood, Margaret
Nightfall (The Vampire Diaries: The Return, #1) Smith, L.J. (my soul dies a bit…)

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My Ultimate Goal

Dec 22nd, 2009 by Jessica

I want to lose some weight. I’m not sure how much, really, but I want be a bit lighter. I currently bounce around between a few pounds, but I usually cap and feel my most down at 160. I think I carry the weight well and wouldn’t label myself “fat” or “chunky” or anything like that.

My main area of concern is my thighs and stomach. I don’t want a six pack (would be nice, but not my goal) but I would like to get rid of my “muffin top” and the “heaviness” I feel when I sit down, especially in my stomach.

My main problem is that I am LAZY. So I am determined to take this in baby steps, which begins with weaning myself off certain treats in my every day diet. For example, my soda intake is freaking ridiculous at the moment. I also have a huge weakness for chocolates and ice cream and sweets. Also, I am lazy about my daily lunches. I always eat frozen, tv-dinners which are loaded in fat, calories, saturated fat and salt.

I also need to exercise a bit more, but I am still working on how to go about that. I can’t afford a gym membership, so I think I will work with my new Nintendo Wii and see what activity games are available (Wii Fit would be nice, but out of my budget at the moment). I also can walk Pnut around the block and maybe brisk walk by myself.

But my short term goal is to adjust my eating habits. I feel like once I get my eating under control I can work on the exercise part which is also critical to successful weight loss.

By February 1st …..

  • I will delete all “frozen dinners” from my daily lunch.
  • I will limit my soda intake. Preferably only one soda a day.
  • I will limit my sweets and chocolate intake.
  • I will consider whether I am hungry or am I just bored before getting seconds or snacking.
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    Goodbye, Farewell…

    Dec 11th, 2009 by Jessica

    I’m sorry. I can’t read your blog anymore. It makes me squirm. All the back patting, all the posts with things I can’t relate to anymore … it is all too much. And I feel like dirt for saying that the pictures of your family make me uncomfortable, but there it is. I hope your writing finds its roots again.

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    Picture Post

    Dec 9th, 2009 by Jessica

    Still working on my camera settings. Think I found out how to fix the grainy look which came out in these pictures.

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    06-09

    Nov 19th, 2009 by Jessica

    I’m very good about paying my bills on time. I’ve only been late once on a credit card payment – but that was years ago – and I had that little mix up with the student loan but overall I am a very good bill payer and I’m pretty good at recognizing deadlines.

    So it was a LITTLE surprising when I suddenly realized that my license plate tag read 06-09. Yup, there I was, loading groceries into the back of my car and totally not believing my eyes. “It doesn’t…. no, it can’t actually say…. OMG.”

    A quick check on the website for the DMV confirmed that I had not misplaced my new tag, but had actually never renewed the tag.

    I wonder how I never got pulled over, I work and frequently drive near the sheriff’s department and jail. I even got rear ended a few months ago, but since there was no damage the driver at fault and myself agreed to go on our way. What would have happened if we had to call the police and my tag was expired?

    June. Damn. Driving 6 months with an expired tag. Damn.

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    Most Popular Flickr

    Nov 18th, 2009 by Jessica

    Sting Ray Underside

    This is the most popular picture in my Flickr account. It is most often found through Google Images when you type “stingray underside”. In fact, it is the fourth picture to pop up. It isn’t even the best of pictures in terms of photographic quality because it is blurry. But, there you have it, the picture that gets the most hits. Who knew people were so interested in the underside of a sting ray?

    Driver Interior

    And the second most popular picture is another blurry and poor quality shot, this one of John’s new Dodge Challenger. These were the first pictures I took with my new camera and these were taken on the day he brought the car home.

    Now, about this car. It was something John saved for, looked forward to and planned on buying for quite a long time. At least as long as I’ve known him. In all truth, it is a beautiful car. It is bright red, it is big and it is heavy looking. It reminds me of a “muscle” car and it very well might be one, but I’m not sure, I’m not a car person.

    At least once a day, it seems, someone stops John to ask him about or compliment his car. People stare at him at stop lights, ask him to roll down his window .. approach him at gas stations … even using their camera phone to snap pictures once or twice. It seems that guys and girls alike turn their heads when we are stopped at a light, or give the thumbs up. Some people ask technical questions, some people just comment on how sleek or hot the car is. And though I roll my eyes and mutter that people need to pay attention to the road and not the car, I secretly get a stab of pleasure when I catch people staring. Just don’t tell anybody, I have an image to protect.

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